Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Lincoln County. 

GEORGE B. COOPER, county clerk of Lincoln County, Ky., was born in Lincoln
County in 1857, and is the fifth of a family of eleven children born to
George B. Cooper and Susan F. (Burton) Cooper. The first representative of
the Cooper family in Lincoln County was Joseph Cooper, who settled on the
land which is now the site of Hustonville in the west part of the county.
His wife was a Miss Blain, and their family consisted of George B., John M.
and Mary Cooper. George B. Cooper, Sr., was born on the 3d of January,
1818, reared in Lincoln County and first married Martha Burton, who was a
daughter of Archibald Burton, and who died leaving one child, Martha
Cooper. His second wife, Susan F. Burton, was a younger sister of his
former wife. By this union he had a family of eleven children as follows:
Joseph, Mary, Annie, Bettie, George B., Mittie, John M., Rosa, Archie,
Joseph and Jennie. It will be noticed that the eldest and tenth members of
this family bore the same name, and a remarkable coincidence is the further
fact that both were born on the same day of the same month, both died on
the same day of the same month, and at the same age, of the same disease.
George B. Cooper, Sr., removed from Kentucky to Texas where he died May 14,
1880, and where his wife still lives. George B. Cooper, Jr., was married
May 31, 1881, to Miss Amanda W. Cook, daughter of James M. and Lucy B. Cook
of Lincoln County. Their children are Lucille and George E. Cooper. For a
number of years Mr. Cooper has engaged in merchandising, but in August,
1886, was elected to the office which he is now acceptably filling. He is
an honored member of the A.F. & A.M. 

Cooper Burton Blain Cook 
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